Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article To : alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.dx,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.policy From : kashe Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 01:08:41 From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:54:34 GMT, "Tom Donaly" wrote: >kashe@sonic.net wrote: >>>Tom Donaly wrote: >>> >>>>Faith and works are, like voltage and current, inextricably intertwined. >> >> >> They are not. >> >> >>>>The proof of faith is the good work. Those who do no good have no faith. >> >> >> Your logic book get lost in the hurricane? Come back when you >> can name the logical fallacy you just committed. > >Some of the lower forms of American Christianity try to separate faith >and works. That allows them salvation without substance, the lazy man's >path to life without end. in your narrow view. > My last two sentences are statements of truth "I fear the man who has all the answers." -- Father James Marien, S.J. -- 1961 -- in my presence. >, not a logical >progression. As written, they beg to be read as an incomplete syllogism. >Each has to be taken alone, by itself. (A religious >fundamentalist insisting on logical consistency constitutes a >pretty good joke.) Let me repeat: Those who do no good have no >faith. Repitition does not include leaving off the first half of the line you wrote. In a humorous logic treatise, your statement would be named "The Proof from Blatant Assertion". > Next time you and your friends are sitting around speaking >in tongues, you should discuss this. Maybe, if you all think real >hard, together, you can puzzle out what it means. >73, >Tom Donaly, KA6RUH .